Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-19
WEST AND SOuTU.

was found guilty of numbering Enos Brum-
baugh. The sentence was imprisonment
for life. He was brother of Amer Green,
lynched recently for killing Luella Mabbitt
AT the county Jail in Chjca 20 on the
morning of the 10th the officials were
startled by loud report that proceeded
from the cell of the Anarchist, Louis Lingg,
and upon Investigation it was discovered
that the desperate man had mutilated his
face horribly by exploding a Illuminating
cap in his mouth. He survived his injuries
about six hours, death ensuing about three
o'clock in the afternoon.
The building occupied by the Detroit
Eueniag ews was destroyed by fire on the
night Of the 10th
GOVERNOR LARRABEE's plurality in Iowa at
the recent election was on the 10th placed
at about 16, 900 and his majority at 5, 1000
The Republican majority in the Legislature
will be 80, with one seat in doubt
The forest fires that had been raging for
some time in the southern portion of Hi
nois and in Southern Indiana were on the
10Th partially extnguished by rain.
WILLIAM M. LOCKE q retired banker who
had lost most of his wealth by unfortuna ate
speculation, committed suicide on the 10th
by shooting at Des Moines, Ia
THE seventh annual session of the Ma
tional Farmers Congress commenced in
Chicago on the 10th The president,
Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia deliy-
cred an address.
Two WHITE men had, it was reported on
the 18th, been lynched near Shreveport,
La, for living with colored women, and a
negro met the same fate for living with a
white woman The people We're determined
to stop miscegenation.
Ec,rrrn - :
lights and repairs to lighthouses in Nlichi-
gan for the next fiscal year foot up $780,
600
OFFICER HENRY SMITH, OF Chicago who
has j,st recovered from wounds received at
the Haymarkeb riot, was attacked by an
Anarchist on the 11th, who attempted first
to choke and then to shoot him The man
/ was arrested.
IHE Official returns OF the recent election
in Ohio received on the II tn Republican
plurality of 58,052; Democrats, "a ,499;
net Republican, 3d. 53 The Senate stands:
Republicans, %; Democrats, II; the House,
Republicans "a; Democrats, Al.
/ FIRE destroyed the large cotton shed Of
!, Brooks, Nicely & Co., at Memphis, Tenn, on
the II th, with %, 600 bales of cotton Loss
$275, OO9, insurance, 800, 600.
AUGUST Spies, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph
Fischer and George Engel, four of the con-
| victed Anarchist conspirators who were adj
| Judged guilty OF the 1nurderous slaughter of
seven policemen at the Haymarket in Chi
cago in May, 1886, were hanged in the
county Jail at 11:57 clock, on the morning
| OF the llth The execution took place in
| the presence of a small assemblage of peo-
| pie and was devoid of sensational incidents
The men met their fate stoically.
/ SIyTERN ua11 re-
ported on the 18th at Manatee, Fla
RICHARD g. WARPLE, the murderer Of
David Corker, was hanged on the il th at
I Laf yette Ore.
The convention of the American Public
Health Asso citation at Memphis, Tenn, came
| to an end on the 115h DR. Charles N. Hew-
| lit, of Red Wing, Mimi. was elected presi-
dent
1 The funeral Of August Spies, Albert r
Parsons, Louis Lngg, Adolph Fischer and
George Engel, the dead Chicago Anarchists,
occurred on the 18th It was the occa-
sion for large gathering of their friends
and sympathizers, but the event passed off
very quietly. The bodies were taken from
their homes and procession was formed
to the depot, where all who wished took
trains for the cemetery. Speeches were
delivered, after which the bodies were placed
in a vault
An Seveor Station, Md, the house of Ste
ven Culver was burned on the 18th, and
Culver, with his two children, was burned
to death while endeayoring to escape from
the building
FIELDEN and Schwab, the Chicago An
archists whose death sentences were COM
muted to life imprisonment by Governor
/ Oglesby, We're taken to Joliet on the 18th.
Before leaving the jail they were accorded
interviews with their families and friends.
i TIE convention Of the Farmers National